The Black Sleep (1956)

Directed by

Reginald Le Borg

Genre

horror film, science fiction film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 21m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 45 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A 1950s horror film. A doctor uses a potion to put people into a deathlike sleep. His experiments attract the attention of a young surgeon who gets caught up in the doctor's strange work.

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What happens

The Black Sleep (American reissue title Dr. Cadman's Secret) is a 1956 American independent horror film produced by Bel Air Productions, directed by Reginald LeBorg, and written by John C. Higgins from a story by Gerald Drayson Adams. It stars Basil Rathbone, Lon Chaney Jr., John Carradine, Bela Lugosi, and Akim Tamiroff. Tor Johnson appears in a supporting role. The film was produced by Aubrey Schenck and Howard W. Koch, as part of a four-picture finance-for-distribution arrangement with United Artists. The film was released in the US in June 1956 as a double feature with the 1955 British film The Quatermass Xperiment (which was retitled The Creeping Unknown in the US). The Black Sleep was re-released in 1962 under the title Dr. Cadman's Secret on a double feature with Voodoo Island (which at that point was retitled Silent Death). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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